NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has warned Moscow against wasting money on an artificial enemy if it stations missiles in Kaliningrad in response to the Western alliance's missile defense plans. NATO Secretary General...

... activists in southern Ukraine protested the arrival of a U.S. Navy ship that will take part in joint military drills. Some 100 mostly elderly protesters rallied in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol against Ukraine's cooperation with the United States and NATO. The activists burned a mock American flag, and shouted "Yankee Go Home" upon the arrival of the Vella Gulf guided missile cruiser. (AP)

Time for reaching an agreement over U.S. and NATO plans for a European missile shield is running out, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday, but stressed that talk of a new arms race between Moscow and Washington is greatly overblown. Time for reaching an agreement over...

BRUSSELS — NATO has decided to extend until 2018 an operation to protect the airspace of Baltic members Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with fighter jets, officials said Wednesday. None of the three Baltic nations, which joined NATO in 2004, have had fighter planes...

... been reminiscent of the Cold War, with the Russians threatening to deploy missiles aimed at countering a proposed U.S. missile shield, and the Americans responding that they will build the system, come what may. The planned U.S. shield, endorsed by NATO, would deploy U.S. interceptor missiles in and around Europe in what Washington says is layered protection against missiles that could be fired by countries like Iran. Moscow says this could undermine its security if it becomes capable of neutralizing...

... Moscow with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. "We have seen that in Libya, and we will not allow the repetition of the Libyan scenario." Russia abstained in the UN vote authorizing military intervention in Libya, but harshly criticized NATO for what it saw as an excessive use of force and civilian casualties during the NATO bombing campaign against strongman Moammar Gadhafi's regime. Rebels in Libya eventually succeeded in overthrowing Gadhafi, but they had enormous military support...

Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's leading self-proclaimed patriot and its former envoy to NATO, was appointed last month as deputy prime minister in charge of overseeing the defense industry. Although his appointment came as a surprise to most observers, there had been several signs that this was coming. Dmitry...

... will continue throughout 2012. The weapon was shown in January to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who is responsible for the country's military-industrial complex. In an apparent divergence with the Defense Ministry, the former ambassador to NATO highly praised the Kalashnikov brand. The government has been engaged in a public battle with defense equipment suppliers over spiraling costs and poor-quality goods. "It's not worth our military bosses having an argument with military science...

... soldier who protected the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War," Atambayev said. Mainly Muslim Kyrgyzstan lies on a drug-trafficking route out of Afghanistan. Like Russia, it is also concerned about a possible spillover of Islamist militancy as NATO-led troops prepare to leave Afghanistan by 2014. Nikolai Bordyuzha, secretary-general of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a Russia-led regional security body, said last March that the withdrawal of NATO troops would create a threat to...

... its opponents. Opposition leaders swiftly rejected the idea, calling it a ploy to buy time and delay action by the Security Council. Russia has warned that it would not allow foreign intervention in Syria after accusing the United States and other NATO countries of violating the mandate of a March 2011 Security Council resolution on Libya and using it to oust Moammar Gadhafi. Russia and China vetoed a European-drafted resolution on Syria in October. China is expected to follow Russia’s lead...

BRUSSELS — Russia would regard any military intervention linked to Iran's nuclear program as a threat to its own security, Moscow's departing ambassador to NATO warned on Friday. "Iran is our neighbor," Dmitry Rogozin told reporters in Brussels. "And if Iran is involved in any military action, it's a direct threat to our security." Rogozin was speaking two days after the killing of a...

... speech for closer U.S. trade relations with Russia, which fought a brief war with neighboring Georgia in 2008. During his meeting with Saakashvili, Obama also said the United States would continue to support Georgia's aspirations to become a member of NATO. 179738

... in jail until his next hearing on Jan. 25. 
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. cited military officials as saying Delisle worked for a unit that tracked vessels entering and exiting Canadian waters. It said the unit had access to secret data from NATO countries. 
"Let me assure you our allies have full confidence in Canada," said Defense Minister Peter MacKay. He declined to confirm the CTV report that said Delisle had given secrets to Russia. 
Delisle — also suspected...

... relations, despite President Barack Obama's efforts to overcome strains that had developed during the previous U.S. administration. Relations between Moscow and Washington have worsened over a new U.S.-led missile defense system being developed by NATO around Europe, and Russia's teaming with China to block a UN Security Council resolution that would have urged Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been increasingly eager to challenge the United States as...

...," a reference to U.S. foreign policy. Makarov said the Russian military is closely watching Iran, Syria and the rest of the Middle East and North Africa. Russia has said it will not allow a repeat in Syria of last year's events in Libya, where NATO helped topple Moammar Gadhafi. Moscow, one of six powers negotiating with Iran to prove Iran's claims that its nuclear program has no military purpose, has repeatedly said too much pressure is counterproductive. Russia built Iran's first nuclear...

... FSRU, Klaipedos said. The other companies that took part in the tender were Norwegian Golar LGN and U.S. LNG terminal developer Excelerate Energy. Lithuania wants an alternative supplier to Gazprom, as the Baltic state — which joined the EU and NATO in 2004 — depends 100 percent on Russian gas supplies. The Lithuanian government has expressed fears that energy supplies could be used for political purposes, or to increase their pricing leverage. Lithuania's Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius...

... said the United States could not give without limiting or eliminating parts of the system. "The only way they're going to be reassured that … the system itself does not undercut their strategic deterrent is to sit with us in the tent in NATO and see what we're doing," she said. "So is it a political leap of faith? Yes. Are they ready to do it? No," she said. "But we're hoping that these strategic stability talks over the next eight months will start to kind of loosen...

... contract, Kommersant reported this week. Last month, a Russian-owned ship laden with munitions arrived in Syria after being temporarily detained in Cyprus. Analysts have speculated that Russia is eager to hold on to a longtime ally and prevent a repeat of NATO's intervention in Libya. Also at play are billions of dollars worth of arms contracts and a naval base in the Mediterranean city of Tartus, Russia's only military base outside the former Soviet Union. 418973 179742

... become a victim for the most part because it is close to Iran. The removal from power of the current regime is part of a plan to isolate Iran," Primakov wrote in an article published in Monday's Rossiiskaya Gazeta. "The United States and its NATO allies want to exploit the situation that arose in the spring of 2011 in the Arab world with the aim of getting rid of Arab regimes it dislikes," wrote Primakov, a Middle East expert who has also been Russia's foreign minister and spy chief...

... the region grew after the loss of the lucrative Iraqi and Libyan markets. Russia, whose abstention in a UN vote cleared the way for military intervention in Libya, later voiced frustration with what it described as a disproportionate use of force by NATO. The Kremlin has vowed not to allow a replay in Syria, warning that it would block any UN resolution on Syria lacking a clear ban on any foreign military interference. Moscow accuses the West of turning a blind eye to shipments of weapons to the...